"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing."
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"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."
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"He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master."
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"IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE"
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"To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education."
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"I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education."
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"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."
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"What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real."
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"The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things."
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"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."
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"No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt."
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"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."
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"I was determined to know beans."
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"A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired."
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"A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people."
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"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."
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"We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them."
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"Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons."
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"I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount blind hatred directed at black conservatives by liberals. Liberals are shockingly quick to demean and dismiss brilliant black people like Rice, Carson, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Professor Walter E. Williams and economist Thomas Sowell because they don't fit into the role they have carved out for a black person in America. Black Americans must be obedient liberals on all things or risk being called a race traitor or an Uncle Tom."
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"There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books."
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